This is no ordinary geocaching trading item!

Caching the Counties is a Essex Country Parks Geocoin Travel Bug, traveling from geocache to geocache on a very specific mission.

If you do not intend to log your visit on the Geocaching.com web site, please DO NOT TAKE THIS ITEM. Its travels and its progress requires you to log that it is being taken from this geocache. You will also need to log when you place it in another geocache. It's easy!

If you are willing to log your part of this Trackable's journey and place it in another geocache as soon as possible (after you log your find), grab it from this geocache.

My Current Goal:

To find a cache in each of the counties of England.

*** UPDATE***** 
February 2016: Currently in Cornwall having spent a lovely few weeks travelling around this beautiful county with Birder Ces

We're at the start of 2016, and after disappearing for a couple of years, we're very much 'on mission' again...
A HUGE thankyou to collegerovers for getting in contact after discovering our coin in Lincolnshire, giving it a bit of a spit & polish, taking it on a mini roadtrip around the Midland counties and sending it on its way again.

'Caching the Counties' has passed through many geo-hands and criss-crossed the country.  It's been a weird experience for me looking at the places it has visited - Lancaster (where Carejea junior is at Uni), Durham (where I was at Uni), Wetherby (I was born not far from there), Essex (where it was purchased) and Needham Market (only a few miles from home)...!!

There aren't many Counties left unvisited.  Can it finish its mission before the end of 2016??

So far 'Caching the Counties' has visited:

Buckinghamshire (with Ed2Ed)
Cambridgeshire (with collegerovers)
Cheshire (with Sir-Lancelot)
Cornwall (with Birder Ces)
Cumbria (with TLCRC)
Derbyshire (with ThePeddars2015)
Devon (with Roughies)
Dorset (with paul2010)
Dumfries & Galloway (with Sir-Lancelot)
Durham (with The Lambs @ 9)
Essex (with jazzyjessups)
Gloucestershire (with TeamNBG)
Greater London (with kmesteio2003)
Hampshire (with foxonthescent)
Hertfordshire (with Poshrule)
Huntingdonshire (part of Cambridgeshire, but historically a County - with D-Donahue-family)
Kent (with Youngsontour)
Lancashire (with Sir-Lancelot)
Leicestershire (with collegerovers)
Lincolnshire (rediscovered by collegerovers after being missing for over 2 years)
Norfolk (with collegerovers)
Northamptonshire (with collegerovers)
Northumberland (with tonyscruff)
Nottinghamshire (with collegerovers)
Oxfordshire (with Roughies)
Rutland (with collegerovers)
Shropshire (with Roughies)
Somerset (with little-leggs)
South Lanarkshire (with Sir-Lancelot)
Staffordshire (with Sir-Lancelot)
Suffolk (journey started by Carejea
Surrey (with water mad)
Sussex (with jocamino)
Tyne & Wear (with Team-welly)
Warwickshire (with pairoboots)
Wiltshire (with Juggles)
Worcestershire (with Roughies)
Yorkshire - East Riding (with The Lambs @ 9)
Yorkshire - North (with Sir-Lancelot)
Yorkshire - West (with Sir-Lancelot)

Thank you to all our geo-transporters!!

The Geocaching site doesn't always send me notifications that the coin has been logged somewhere, so if you take the coin to a new county and I don't update the page after a couple of days, please message me so I can credit you and keep the list live